I will not ruin anything for you, but I just finished The Haunting of Hill House. I must say I'm a little confused by the ending and I know I could at least get Andy's and Bailey's inputs on the story.
For those of you that have not read it, no worries! Andy chose the perfect story as a transition into reading entire books in short periods of time. It's a slow start but moves quickly once you get into it. I was really disappointed last night when I finished the book because I couldn't find the movie On Demand. I really need to get NetFlix...I was looking up the movies on trusty IMDB and noticed something odd. All the character names are the same in both, besides Dr. Montague. In 1963 he was Dr. Markway and in 1999 he was Dr. Marrow. Wonder why the movie makers had to change the character's name...
Now to read more Straub for next week and start Pretty Monsters. My other classes can wait ;)
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I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. The 1963 version can be seen free here:
http://www.novamov.com/video/4a89c35dd4f7b
and in case you want to watch both, the 1999 version here:
http://www.novamov.com/video/0yo8bbg1j6raa
ENJOY!
After we watched the 1999 version last night and discussed the reason behind the name changes, I suggested to Katy that maybe it was only an effort to not have viewers of the films associate the Doctor with the Montagues from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... But really, I don't see the point in that. Who cares if he has the same last name... Just something I thought about, though.
Maybe the name changes it because it's hard to spell. or maybe people just want to mock a doctor they had that started with an "m" ha
Why Montague became Markway is an excellent question, and I don't know the answer. I'll see what I can find out.
I hope you can find something, Andy. That is truly going to bother me.
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